Publicism and conservative politics of Brazil in the XIX century

Abstract This article focuses on the political uses of the Law, more specifically on the way that fractions of the Brazilian imperial elite mobilized discourses. The main goal of this approach is to discuss the mobilization of legal knowledge in the context of the conflicts engendered in the 19th century about the definition of a model of State in Brazil, through socio-historical methodology. This research shows the uses of publicism , as well as the invention of constitutionalism, as strategies in the political game, which correspond to the rivalry between elites in the process of construction and legitimation of a regime with monarchical features and centralized.

摘要 本文聚焦于法律的政治功用，具体探讨巴西帝国精英派系运用法律话语的具体路径。本研究采用社会历史研究方法，核心目标为探讨19世纪巴西围绕国家模式定义所引发的各类冲突背景下，法律知识的运用情况。本研究揭示，法学宣传主义（publicism）的运用与宪政主义的创制，均可作为政治博弈的策略，二者恰好对应了在构建与合法化具有君主制特征的中央集权政权的进程中，巴西精英阶层内部的对抗关系。